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Blender Planning Vulkan Support This Year, Other Exciting Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 23:11
Blender has an exciting year still ahead with a road-map they just published that does include Vulkan API support...

Khronos Ratifies KTX 2.0

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 21:00
Just one week after having published the provisional Vulkan Video extensions, The Khronos Group has another exciting announcement today in the form of ratifying KTX 2.0...

AMD Releases Radeon Software Linux Driver With Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 20:45
AMD Radeon graphics cards on Linux can finally enjoy Vulkan ray-tracing! AMD has published a new Radeon Software for Linux driver release that enables the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions for use with RDNA2 / Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards...

AMD Proposing Redesign For How Linux GPU Drivers Work - Explicit Fences Everywhere

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 20:26
Well known open-source AMD Linux graphics driver developer Marek Olšák published an initial proposal this week as "a redesign of how Linux graphics drivers work."..

Mesa RADV Driver Fixes Memory Leak Affecting Metro Exodus On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 18:06
Last week 4A Games released Metro Exodus for Linux and while there were a few issues at launch, at least one of them is now resolved...

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